Ariz. EMT on administrative leave after sharing patient details on Facebook

With the caption “this week’s winner of biggest b.s. call goes to,” the EMT shared a screenshot of a call log. The patient’s name and address were blurred, but other information could be read.

Here’s a hint on how to have a long and trouble free career in EMS. Or any other medical field for that matter.

Don’t to dumb shit like this.

It’s not just EMS, but some young doctors think that they are striking a blow for freedom or something when they do things like this,

Ohio doctor fired after anti-Semitic tweets surface, including threat to give Jews ‘wrong meds

An Ohio doctor accused of making anti-Semitic remarks on social media, including a tweet in which she allegedly said she would give Jewish people the wrong medication, was fired from the medical center she worked at, officials said.

Old tweets linked to a Twitter account belonging to Lara Kollab, who was working as a resident at Cleveland Clinic, recently surfaced and appeared to show her making disparaging comments about Jewish people, according to The Times of Israel.

One of these is clearly worse than the other, and frankly I’m glad the doctor has been removed from practicing medicine. At least she was the last I knew.

Facebook posts, Tweets, even blogs if one is not careful can seriously damage your career.

I’ve spent several years working to keep my identity at least semi secret and make sure that none of what I post can identify a particular patient, hospital, or EMS service.

Posting a comment about an article I find on line is a bit different since the public details are a matter of public record. If there is an article about my former service and I have some inside details, you probably won’t read about them on this blog.

It’s always a best practice NOT to blab in public about what you do in EMS. Even if you want to tell some friends about it, make sure that they can’t figure out where the call was, who the patient was, or even if you’re telling a war story you heard somewhere or talking about something you were involved in.

Remember, no one ever got in trouble by keeping their mouth shut.